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26/06/2013

Infant Jesus Shrine KOVAIPUDUR
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Kovaipudur or rather Kuni­a­muthur and areas South and West of Pal­ghat Road was in the begin­ning attached to the Cathe­dral parish. Bishop Visuwaram was search­ing for a suit­able site on the National High­way of this area, accord­ing to his grand plans but he died before it was real­ized. It was attached to Madukkarai parish and since 05-10-1976, Sun­day mass was cel­e­brated in a house with the large Hous­ing colony for the ‘Spe­cial Pro­tec­tion Force’ and civil­ian hous­ing colonies mush­room­ing all over, a site was bought by the Dio­cese, with the pic­turesque back-drop of Vel­lingiri hills to the west.

With local con­tri­bu­tion a small chapel was put up and blessed on 19-04-1984. Sens­ing the desire of the peo­ple to have the Novena of Infant Jesus of Prague, the weekly Novena was started on 15-08-1985. As the num­ber of devo­tees was increas­ing, a new church was con­structed by Fr. Kulandairaj and it was con­se­crated on 04-06-1987 by Rev. Bishop Ambrose. On the same day Kovaipudur was erected a new parish with Fr.P. Iru­da­yaraj as its first parish priest.
A new Bell-Tower was built by Fr.P.Irudayaraj and was blessed by same Bishop Ambrose on 08-09-1993. A tem­po­rary build­ing for the Sem­i­nar­i­ans attend­ing the col­lege course was put up and Fr.Antony Man­thara was its Rec­tor. Later it was shifted back to the minor Sem­i­nary premises of Coimbatore.
By the side of the church, attached par­al­lel to it a spa­cious open-air hall with over­head roof­ing was con­structed (to accom­mo­date the increas­ing Devo­tees.) by Fr. Lour­dhu Iru­da­yaraj and blessed by Rev. Bishop Ambrose on 12-01-1997. Finally a new sep­a­rate pres­bytery was built by Fr. Lour­dhu Iru­da­yaraj and blessed on 23-09-2001 by Bishop Ambrose and also a new Grotto was built and blessed on 06-11-2003. A Grotto of Cal­vary was con­structed and blessed on 15-08-2002. Fr. Dhanasekar built the sta­tions of the cross with life like stat­ues in the year 2005 and it was blessed by Bishop Thomas Aquinas, Fr. Dhanasekar with the col­lec­tion from the devo­tees and from the parish­ioners has con­structed “Thot­til Gebi” (cra­dle or cra­dle chapel) to encour­age the par­ents to lay their chil­dren in a cra­dle to get the spe­cial bless­ings of Infant Jesus.
Thou­sands of peo­ple from all reli­gious and reli­gion visit this Shrine and receive many bless­ings. On Thurs­day, dur­ing Novena, all those who receive spe­cial bless­ings give ‘wit­ness mes­sage’ that encour­age oth­ers to have more faith in Infant Jesus. Thanks giv­ing let­ters are also offered on the feet of Infant Jesus.

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06/03/2013

Ah, my Blessed Mother,
it is not one sword only with which I have pierced thy heart,
but I have done so with as many
as are the sins which I have committed.
Ah, Lady, it is not to thee,
who art innocent,
that sufferings are due, but to me,
who am guilty of so many crimes.
But since thou hast been pleased to suffer so much for me,
ah, by thy merits,
obtain me great sorrow for my sins,
and patience under the trials of this life,
which will always be light in comparison with my demerits;
for I have often deserved Hell.

Amen.